Monday, October 10, 2022

Jesus was Jewish

Jesus was Jewish.  He had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony when he reached the required age.  He practiced Shabbat, attended synagogue,  celebrated the required Jewish holy times.   

Jesus did not write the King James version of the Bible.  He did not even read it.  Why?  The King James version was not published until 1604, 1600 years after Jesus.  The Geneva Bible was a popular translation to read at home before King James created his own. The Church of England had its own translation.  

There was no Bible in the form we know today comprised of an "old" and "new" testament  untl several hundred years after Jesus Christ lived.  No translation of the Bible today can claim to be the true translation.

I saw a sign out front of a church once.  It said, "which church would Jesus attend?"  My thought as I drove by, in answer to the question, was no church.  Is there a church today that can claim to be the true church? No.  How could it be?  People who followed Jesus in the early churches pooled their resources and worked together.  There were no weathy pastors.  Church leaders were servants of God who renounced wealth.  Church wealth came when Rome and then England took the church over.

Who was Jesus?  Why did he come?  Was Jesus God?  Was he Messiah of the Jewish Scriptures, our Bible's Old Testament?  Many questions.

One thing we cannot deny is that Jesus was Jewish.  The English name Jesus comes from his Hebrew name Yeshua.  Yeshua actually translates to English as Joshua.

But is he Messiah?  Is Yeshua God's perfect Lamb?  He who takes away the sin of the world? The final sacrifice?  God is Holy.  We cannot meet God as sinners.  Eternity is a very long time.  Yeshua loved me so much that he became the sacrificial lamb so I can meet God when I die.  I am convinced that he is the prophesied Messiah of the Old Testament.  I believe he is the lamb of God.

I have had many convincing, supernatural experiences.  I know for myself that he is Messiah.  But you must ask yourself within your own Spirit.  You must know him yourself.  I cannot tell you to know it.  How can anyone?  We must know our self.

Ask him to come into your heart and show you for yourself, to find out.  Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding.  Right where you sit.  Ask him into your heart.  Surrender works.